Teaching was emphasized over scholarship, and the size of the student body rose from just under 1,000 to the 1,200 target.

The size of the city work force will rise slightly, officials said, because of the accelerated hiring of police officers.

Rising from the earth is a dramatic welded-steel pyramid the size of a smallish apartment building.

The size of the average campaign contribution to Governor Cuomo, for example, has risen steadily, from $1,228 in 1982 to $2,002 so far this election.

Of course, as donor sophistication and the size of individual gifts rise, restrictions on the use of contributions become more common.

And a board of the porch folded back as an ark three times the size of the first one rose into view.

Within four years the size of the freshman class had risen 35 percent, to 454 students.

Both the cost and the size of the main guns for these new cruisers were rising.

The number and size of business, professional and other independent organizations rose swiftly.

But the size of that spam has risen 227 percent.